Healthcare system in complete state of crisis more like.
>the NHS is facing the worst winter for A&E waits on record.
on record so far, but don’t worry, it can and will get worse.
This is so awful, and it’s only going to get worse.
If I worked there I’d leave and then how will they recruit?!
My wife had surgery a few days ago and got lucky enough to be sent to a private hospital doing NHS work. Two things hit me:
1. How *good* a hospital experience can actually be when properly funded. There were enough staff to actually provide care during the night as she came round from anaesthetic that she wasn’t left in pain or left to struggle with getting to the toilet on her own. Discharge was almost immediate once the doctor had approved it instead of the usual wait for 6-8 hours for a nurse to be available to sort out meds and paperwork. We’ve got so used to the desperate lack of staffing and funding that it bowled us over entirely.
2. On discharge they gave her a set of surgical staple removers in with her meds. Explanation: you’re probably going to need to go back to an NHS practice to have the staples out and there’s no guarantee that they’ll actually have the equipment.
Stark realisation of the extent to which funding has been systematically cut from the NHS for decades.
People need to see their gp in most cases. Trouble is gp surgeries are going through the same problems.
While my practice refuses to see more than 20 people a day, and sends me to A&E when I call.
They have more receptionists than GPs.
The GPS get paid 100k+ per annum.
See what’s wrong?
I think ‘some’ is underselling it. A lack of social care in the community means that discharging patients is harder than ever, meaning so many beds are blocked unnecessarily. Winter is peak respiratory virus season and we have multiple viruses kicking our collective arses. Medical staff are burnt out, sick themselves (with stress or a virus) and are leaving/contemplating leaving in droves. It is a perfect storm and it is mirrored across the UK, however, as always, it is the staff having to go the extra mile who are holding it together by a sheer miracle. People would do well to remember that come the next strike.
It took 12 hours to get seen to in A&E when I had acute pancreatitis. I was in agony until a nurse gave me Oramorph but that only lasted 3 hours. By the time I got saw too, a lot of the pain was gone and the attack had stopped. There was a person there who had appendicitis who couldn’t stand and was vomiting all the time and they couldn’t get him a bed because there were none. At least this experience has taught me to be healthier because if I got that ill again, its going to be a lot worse.
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Healthcare system in complete state of crisis more like.
>the NHS is facing the worst winter for A&E waits on record.
on record so far, but don’t worry, it can and will get worse.
This is so awful, and it’s only going to get worse.
If I worked there I’d leave and then how will they recruit?!
My wife had surgery a few days ago and got lucky enough to be sent to a private hospital doing NHS work. Two things hit me:
1. How *good* a hospital experience can actually be when properly funded. There were enough staff to actually provide care during the night as she came round from anaesthetic that she wasn’t left in pain or left to struggle with getting to the toilet on her own. Discharge was almost immediate once the doctor had approved it instead of the usual wait for 6-8 hours for a nurse to be available to sort out meds and paperwork. We’ve got so used to the desperate lack of staffing and funding that it bowled us over entirely.
2. On discharge they gave her a set of surgical staple removers in with her meds. Explanation: you’re probably going to need to go back to an NHS practice to have the staples out and there’s no guarantee that they’ll actually have the equipment.
Stark realisation of the extent to which funding has been systematically cut from the NHS for decades.
People need to see their gp in most cases. Trouble is gp surgeries are going through the same problems.
While my practice refuses to see more than 20 people a day, and sends me to A&E when I call.
They have more receptionists than GPs.
The GPS get paid 100k+ per annum.
See what’s wrong?
I think ‘some’ is underselling it. A lack of social care in the community means that discharging patients is harder than ever, meaning so many beds are blocked unnecessarily. Winter is peak respiratory virus season and we have multiple viruses kicking our collective arses. Medical staff are burnt out, sick themselves (with stress or a virus) and are leaving/contemplating leaving in droves. It is a perfect storm and it is mirrored across the UK, however, as always, it is the staff having to go the extra mile who are holding it together by a sheer miracle. People would do well to remember that come the next strike.
It took 12 hours to get seen to in A&E when I had acute pancreatitis. I was in agony until a nurse gave me Oramorph but that only lasted 3 hours. By the time I got saw too, a lot of the pain was gone and the attack had stopped. There was a person there who had appendicitis who couldn’t stand and was vomiting all the time and they couldn’t get him a bed because there were none. At least this experience has taught me to be healthier because if I got that ill again, its going to be a lot worse.